Situated Testimonies: Dread and Enchantment in an Indonesian Literary Archive 9780824839116
The Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer made a distinction between a “downstream” literary reality and an “upstream”
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Table of contents :
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on Conventions
Selected Timeline of Indies and Indonesian Histories
Introduction: The Afterwardsness of History
Chapter 1. Desire, Phantoms, and Commodities: Maria Dermoût’s Colonial Critique
Chapter 2. At Home and Not at Home in Empire: Transnational Phantasies of Colonial Modernity
Chapter 3. A Neurotic Family Romance of Modernity and the National Form
Chapter 4. The End of the Nationalist Romance
Chapter 5. Trauma and Its Doubles in Postcolonial Masculinity
Chapter 6. Masculinist Trauma and Feminist Melancholia
Afterword: Trauma, Translation, and a Critical Path
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on Conventions
Selected Timeline of Indies and Indonesian Histories
Introduction: The Afterwardsness of History
Chapter 1. Desire, Phantoms, and Commodities: Maria Dermoût’s Colonial Critique
Chapter 2. At Home and Not at Home in Empire: Transnational Phantasies of Colonial Modernity
Chapter 3. A Neurotic Family Romance of Modernity and the National Form
Chapter 4. The End of the Nationalist Romance
Chapter 5. Trauma and Its Doubles in Postcolonial Masculinity
Chapter 6. Masculinist Trauma and Feminist Melancholia
Afterword: Trauma, Translation, and a Critical Path
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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